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DarkNecrid · Sep 21, 2008, 09:13 AM // 09:13

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Originally Posted by fenix

And yet you still wrote that GW has 2+ million players.

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It does?

The only way it is possible for it to have 1 million (or in any case, below 2 million) players is if every single person has a copy of each chapter of the game, no one plays in foreign lands where they buy licenses to play instead of copies & licenses, never bought packaged copies of the game that include multiple chapters (this means these don't sell at all, which is of course impossible.).

Now unless if you are trying to tell me there is 1 million people out there who only bought the 4 chapters by themselves exactly (we're assuming there's maybe 1 million duplicate boxes copies I guess (bought 2x prophecies, etc.), which means each person who plays this game also bought a duplicate chapter), then yes, there is ~ 2 million player base. Yes, this includes people who haven't played in a bit, but it's still a roughly 2 million player base.

Abedeus · Sep 21, 2008, 10:24 AM // 10:24

Bullcrap. Player base - people that still play.

5 mln copies sold of ALL 4 games.

If everyone has a copy of every game, there is 1.25mln ACCOUNTS. If there are people with 2 or 3 accounts maxed (all games), it drastically gets lower.

Then you have thousands upon thousands of people NOT playing, because:

a) game is boring in pve
b) pvp is a long, pointless grind
c) you can do everything there is in the game (not counting mindless boring grinds that just need time, no skill or brain at all)
d) game is boring
e) community manager is mad at the community for 3 months or so
f) they are banned bots/active bots and don't count as people

And there would be 50k people playing every month. At best, and probably not a lot of people would play more than 10-12 hours a week.

Snow Bunny · Sep 21, 2008, 06:33 PM // 18:33

If GW's playerbase is higher than 100,000 I would be very surprised.

IN FACT (JUST FOR FENIX) I WILL STOP GOING TO YALE IF GW'S PLAYERBASE IS OVER 500,000

beserk · Sep 21, 2008, 07:42 PM // 19:42

What ppl have to understand is, gw doesnt have 10 million servers to play on like WOW, the american/euro districts are usually full of ppl, couple that with having 10 mil subscribers to gw...i think id prefer the player base the level its currently at thanks...dont want a server crash =s

fenix · Sep 22, 2008, 04:19 AM // 04:19

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Originally Posted by Snow Bunny

If GW's playerbase is higher than 100,000 I would be very surprised.

IN FACT (JUST FOR FENIX) I WILL STOP GOING TO YALE IF GW'S PLAYERBASE IS OVER 500,000

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